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The spectacular : a novel

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  • Temps de fonctionnement: 11:54 hrs
    Voix de: Hillary Huber
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Temps de fonctionnement: 11:54 hrs
    Voix de: Hillary Huber
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2022
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component

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  • Author: Whittall, Zoe.
    Contributor: Huber, Hillary
    Edition: Unabridged
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    2021
    Summary:

    It's taboo to regret motherhood. But what would happen if you did? Shifting perspectives and time periods, The Spectacular is a multi-generational story exploring sexuality, gender and the weight of reproductive freedoms, from the author of The Best Kind of People. It's 1997 and Missy's band has finally hit the big time as they tour across America. At twenty-two years old, Missy gets on stage every night and plays the song about her absent mother that made the band famous. Missy is the only girl in the band and she's determined to party just as hard as everyone else, loving and leaving someone in every town. But then a forgotten party favour strands her at the border. Forty-something Carola is just surfacing from a sex scandal at the yoga centre where she has been living, when she sees her daughter, Missy, for the first time in ten years-on the cover of a music magazine. Ruth is eighty-three and planning her return to the Turkish seaside village where she spent her childhood. But when her granddaughter Missy winds up crashing at her house, she decides it's time that the strong and stubborn women in her family find a way to understand each other again. In her new book, by turns sharp and provocative, Zoe Whittall captures three generations of very different women who struggle to build an authentic life in the absence of traditional familial and marital structures. Definitions of family, romance, gender and love will radically change as they seek out lives that are nothing less than spectacular.

    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781443463010